Department in meltdown?

The County Music Service is earmarked for closure and teachers are having to strike just to get paid the rate for the job.

Set this against a background of a couple of local primary schools already having been axed, and you have an impression of an Education Department in meltdown.

Whilst I appreciate that the government is starving councils of funding, I cannot help wondering how bad things have to get before East Sussex County Council breaks into its £145 million of usable reserves.

Bill Ball

Hayward Road, Lewes